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GAME APPARATUS Filed Jan. 12, 1932 19 Sheets-Sheet 19 Patented Dec. 15,1936

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE George H. mfii fis assignor, by

mesne assignments, to Consolidated Patents Corporation, Chicago, 111., a corporation of Illinois Application January 12, 1932, Serial No. 586,145

4'7 Claims. (Cl. 273-89)v This inventionrelates to game apparatus.

Among the many objects in view are included the following:

1) The provision of game apparatus in which balls are adapted to be placed in motion on a playing surface and directed to positions thereon by novel and improved synchronized mechanisms.

(2) The provision of game apparatus in which novel means of a manually actuable character are employed and adapted to be controlled so as to coact with the aforestated synchronized mechanisms and enable the balls to be skillfully directed to predetermined places upon said playing surface.

(3) The provision of game apparatus having means by which balls can be pitched at regular intervals to a batting mechanism which may be made effective to bat a ball at the discretion of the player at any time during movement of a pitched ball.

(4) The provision of game apparatus in which means are employed that will automatically return the batting means to a starting position after said means has been actuated to bat a ball.

(5) The provision of game apparatus in which means are employed for automatically changing the line of movement of successively pitched balls, thus requiring greater skill in batting the ball to one or another of the predetermined ball receivers upon the playing surface.

(6) The provision of game apparatus in which means are employed for feeding balls to a pitching means andfor utilizing power derived. from the feeding means to drive the pitching means in operative time with the delivery of a ball thereto.

(7) The provision of game apparatus in which the batting means which is manually actuable to bat a ball cannot be reactuated to bat the same pitched ball.

(8) The provision of game'apparatus having automatically controlled mechanism for successively pitching balls and for utilizing the pitched balls as a score indicator and for automatically stopping the pitching mechanism and returning the balls thus utilized to a ball feeding mechanism at the end of a playing period.

a (9) The provision of game apparatushaving co-ordinated motor controlled mechanisms from one of which balls are adapted to be delivered to the other of said mechanisms to be batted thereby and means by which both of said mechanisms will be automatically stopped upon occurrence of a predetermined event.

(10) The provision of game apparatus including a playing surface having one or more ballreceiving orifices of a predetermined scoring value and one or more ball orifices of different scoring value, and means by which a projected one scoring value for possible reception of the ball therein and if not received therein, to be reprojected in a direction to be received in an orifice of a different scoring value and the received ball then moved from one place on the surface to another place thereon .by the action of a subsequently projected ball.

(12) The provision of apparatus for playing a simulated game of baseball having means to enable practically, if not all regulation plays to be made.

Other objects and advantages will appear upon reference to the following description and the accompanying drawings, in which latter,

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the apparatus.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the apparatus, with parts broken away and parts removed for the sake of clearness.

Figure 3 is a plan view of the mechanisms illustrated in Figure 2 and showing the strikes and balls parts being out broken away for clarity.

Figure 4 is a central transverse section taken on line 4-4 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a perspective view of the counterbalance lever.

Figure 6 is a transverse section taken on line 6-4:? of Figure 5.

Figure 7 is a transverse section taken on line 1-1 of Figure 3.

Figure 8 is a partial sectional view taken on line 88 of Figure 9, with parts in elevation.

Figure 9 is a transverse section on line 9-9 of Figure 3.

Figure 10 is a transverse section similar to Figure 9 showing the out trap in registering position. 

